Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should focus on the difficulty in acquiring useful information in spite of advanced information technology. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words．

As is illustrated in this picture, it is hard for modern people to get a large amount of useful information even though there emerges an explosive growth of information technology. For instance, when we start a research, it’s easy to acquire a wealth of information by virtue of information technology. However, only a tiny proportion of it is helpful.

Personally, there are two reasons for that. Firstly, there are so many ways to get access to information, among which useless information and other distractions unrelated to the subjects you search accounts for a large proportion. Secondly, people will be overwhelmed with false and misleading information which consume our energy a lot.

To resolve the problem, first of all I suggest that we narrow down the search scope. Only if we focus on reliable and effective media, can we filter out invalid information. Then we should analyze the information wisely to effectively and efficiently get what we really need. Last but not least, our government and relevant departments should make policies to regulate the sources and routes of transmission of the misleading and false information.

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正如这幅图所示，即使出现了信息技术的爆炸性增长，现代人们也很难获得大量有用的信息。例如，当我们开始一项研究时，通过信息技术来获取大量的信息是很容易的。然而，只有一小部分是有帮助的。

就个人而言，这有两个原因。首先，有很多方法可以获取信息，其中包括无用的信息和其他与你所搜索的主题无关的干扰。其次，人们会被错误的、误导的信息所淹没，这些信息会消耗我们的能量。

为了解决这个问题，首先我建议我们缩小搜索范围。只有当我们关注可靠有效的媒体时，我们才能过滤掉无效的信息。然后，我们应该明智地分析这些信息，从而有效地得到我们真正需要的信息。最后，我们的政府和相关部门应制定政策，管制误导和虚假信息的传播途径和途径。

1.“如图所示”可以翻译为As is illustrated/shown/demonstrated in the picture, 或者As can be seen from the picture, we can see clearly that…

2. 表示列举的顺序：Firstly…secondly; first of all…then……last but not least

3. 解决问题的方法： To solve this problem, first of all…

4.Only if…can we是Only作为副词放在句首的情形，要采用倒装句。